Neither the universe, nor the Defense budget are infinite. However, both are so vast that they are difficult to visualize. The Business Insider has been posting graphs of the Defense budget in an effort to help us grasp a just how big it really is. Based on information from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute […]
A bunch of mixed martial art stars visited the Marine Corps Martial Arts Center of Excellence, and basically had their rear ends handed to them. This is a slight exaggeration, but not much of one. See video below. We asked Richard Barrios, AMREL’s Web Marketing Specialist, UFC fan and ex-Devil Dog, why the Marines dominated the UFC fighters so […]
Did you know the Bible commands us to commit adultery? Sure you do, it’s right there in the seventh commandment, which begins “Thou shalt…” and ends with “…commit adultery.” What could be clearer? Of course, what I did was edited out significant words, and misleadingly quoted out of context. Something like this is happening with […]
It’s the anniversary of the Curiosity’s landing. For three years, the Mars rover has successfully navigated the rough terrain of the red planet, looking for water and signs of life. We should take a moment to remember just how improbable was the success of the landing. For one thing, the fourth planet had proved not especially […]
You know how the stuntmen make fast cars drift in action movies? Have you ever wanted to make a remote-controlled toy car drift like that? Of course you have. If there ever were awards for endeavors that sound silly, but is actually technically interesting, then the folks at MIT’s Aerospace Controls Lab would surely be nominated. Unmanned […]
Unmanned systems are performing more and more important functions. Robots are active in IED detection, farming, surveillance, medicine, elder care, and hitchhiking. That last one is a bit of mystery to me. What is the “important function” of a hitchhiking unmanned system? To tell tedious, pointless stories on long, boring trips? Crash on your couch? […]
Should you upgrade to Windows 10? You should if: You don’t have enough anxiety in your life. Nothing like learning a new operating system to raise dangerously low levels of stress. You really, really hate Windows 8. Microsoft set out to fix the mistakes of its earlier OS (The Start menu is back! Yay!). This […]
The first revision since 2011, a new National Military Strategy was recently released. The following quote reflects some of the report’s major concerns. “For the past decade, our military campaigns primarily have consisted of operations against violent extremist networks. But today, and into the foreseeable future, we must pay greater attention to challenges posed by […]
“The first three things I asked my briefers about when I woke every morning were Iran, Iran and Iran,” -Marine Gen. James Mattis (Washington Times) The recent nuclear arms control agreement between Iran and the P5+1 (UN Security Council members plus Germany) is one of the most important diplomatic agreements of this generation. It has spurred heated controversy, and has […]
From the very beginning, people have been concerned not only about what unmanned systems can do for them, but also what they can do to them. Indeed, the first time the word “robot” was used, was in a 1920 Czech play that depicted a machine rebellion against mankind. More recently, there has emerged an international […]
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